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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

"Looking Down Bridal Alley"

That's what I think about every time I see a row of columns at a church. Hey, it's a gimme’ you can always capture a magnificent image every time you place a bride in front of pillars. This is a simple straight forward full length bridal portrait that should be made on every wedding, assuming you have the pillars, of course. My composition is straight forward too - I just framed up the bride with the pillars and arches favoring her positioning in the right side of the frame - pretty simple. My chosen focal length was 50mm or just slightly telephoto on my Canon 7D. That made the opening between the pillars appear just a bit larger with respect to the bride. A longer focal length and the opening would have appeared larger still. I thought the 50mm setting worked just fine. Lighting is from camera left - Quantum T5d through my Zumbrella 10 feet away at about 1/4 power. The only minor challenge was the fact that the lighting down "bridal alley" was quite a bit darker than the rest of the church. A quick Lightroom "fill light" adjustment and a quick "luminosity" increase in the yellow channel easily took care of the lighting issue and evened out the tonalities of the photograph. Camera specs: Canon 7D filled with 18-200mm IS lens at 50mm, F7.1 @ 1/30 second, ISO 1600. Enjoy! David

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David Ziser, an internationally renowned portrait and wedding photographer, has shared his knowledge with ten’s-of-thousands of photographers, in 5 languages, and in 14 countries worldwide.
Studio Photograph magazine has extolled..."Award winning photographer, David Ziser, is showing the world how to take wedding pictures." His "Digital WakeUp Call tour was acclaimed as one of the "best ever" seminars on digital photography.